Aiming to spread awareness about environment conservation among masses, a bicycle rally was organized on Monday in Baikunthpur town of Chhattisgarh’s Koriya district.
The awareness rally flagged-off by MlA Champadevi Pawle commenced from village laai close to National Highway-43 and culminated near Amritdhara Waterfall on river Hasdeo.
Koriya District Collector S Prakash, Superintendent of Police (SP) B S Dhruv, Chief Executive Officer of District Panchayat Sanjeev Jha along with students and people in large numbers have actively participated in the 8 km-long bicycle rally to highlight the need of environment conservation.
Meanwhile, the District Collector gave detailed information about the importance of environment conservation. Besides, he also shed light on the efforts being made by the State Government under ‘Clean India Campaign’ launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In the coming days, it is expected that the district will emerge as one of the cleanest regions, he said while calling upon the people to construct toilets in their houses and inculcate the habit of using them.